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Auction: 16043 - Autographs, Historical Documents, Ephemera and Postal History
Lot: 67

Documents
Lewis Carroll
1879 (29 December) folio A.L.S. written from The Chestnuts in Guildford written to , "My dear Edith, I wrote to that hardened malefactor, Agnes, on the 22nd, telling her 4 of us would come, and that she was to let you know how many tickets would be wanted – I find it difficult to describe, in ordinary English, the infamy of her conduct: so will not dwell on it – 3 of them are coming, so we shall be 7 in all: please get the seats you think best, in a block, 4 in front and 3 behind: + please send all the tickets to Mrs. Hall, if anything should prevent our coming, they could utilise the whole lot ...", written in his usual purple ink it is signed, "Affectionately yours, C. L. Dodgson". The recipient is probably Edith Blakemore. Photo

Charles Lutwidge Dodgson (1832 – 1898), better known by his pen name Lewis Carroll, was an English writer, mathematician, logician, Anglican deacon, and photographer. His most famous writings are Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, and Through the Looking-Glass, which includes the poem Jabberwocky, and the poem The Hunting of the Snark, all examples of the genre of literary nonsense. He is noted for his facility at word play, logic, and fantasy.

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